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Our friend and colleague Professor Emeritus James Bramble passed away on July 20, 2021, at his home in Austin, TX. He was 90 years old. His survivors include four children, a stepson, and eight grandchildren.James Bramble earned his bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1953. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland in 1958...
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Ekaterina Landgren is a doctoral candidate in applied mathematics from Moscow, Russia.
/news/student-spotlight-ekaterina-landgrenIf you are thinking about taking math as an incoming student but aren't sure where to start, there is detailed information with answers to frequently asked questions from freshmen and sophomores on the the Department webpage "First Steps in Math." If you still have questions, please join us at an advising info session on Zoom.This will be held on...
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Each year, the Royal Society, a Fellowship made up of the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists from the UK, elects new Fellows. Fellows are elected for life through a peer review process on the basis of excellence in science. This May, Professor Emerita Karen Vogtmann was among the 52 new Fellows elected.The full citation from the...
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Each year, the Graduate and Professional Student Association Faculty Awards recognize outstanding faculty who excel in their teaching, mentorship, and advising of graduate students. This year, one recipient of the award is Assistant Professor and LCP Ho Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow Inna Zakharevich. In her nomination letter, one current...
/news/inna-zakharevich-wins-gpsa-faculty-award![Daina Taimina, "Dreams and Memories" [credit: FAD magazine]](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/field/image/taimina%202%20for%20web.jpg?itok=gXI88_SB)
The Mathematics Department offered several events at the recent CU Virtual Reunion on Friday, June 11, 2021. Daina Taimina shared her Crocheting Adventures in Math, showing and explaining many models of hyperbolic geometry that she has created by crocheting. Laurent Saloff-Coste and Ravi Ramakirshna '88 discussed the evolution of the Mathematics...
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Group theorist Yash Lodha (Ph.D., 2015) has been awarded the START Prize by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. This award gives young researchers the opportunity to plan research over an extended period and with a high degree of financial security. It is one of Austria's most prestigious and most highly endowed awards alongside the Wittgenstein Award...
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A 2021 Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Illinois Department of Mathematics recognizes advances in the field by Michael Stillman, professor of mathematics.
/news/stillman-receives-ui-achievement-award-mathematicsAt the Mathematics Department's virtual Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 28, three graduating seniors received departmental awards:Ely Sandine '21 is this year's recipient of the Mathematics Department's Transcendence Award in recogntion of his leadership in the math club, contributions to the math support center, as well as excellence in...
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